Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.